This version comes in two flavors: the standard hardcover edition, and the special, signed limited, which will feature the signatures of all the authors (Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, Karl Schroeder, and me). There will be only 200 copies of the signed, limited edition, so if you want it, the time to get it is pretty much now.

I’m really excited to have this version of Metatropolis coming up, because while I’m obviously biased, I think the anthology well and truly rocks, and I’m happy it’ll be available in both print and audio. Also, having seen the layout and design of the printed version, I can tell you that this is one pretty book. You’re going to want to hold and pet it and give it a special name. Trust me on this one.

Excellent! Maybe this way I’ll get to it. I had the audio version of “Metatropolis” before the holidays, and I only found time to listen to the very first part of the first story. I am horrible at audio books.

Neat. I purchased but haven’t listened to the audiobook yet. Like Tim @#5, I’m not good at audiobooks either. I don’t have a long enough commute(cue the violins) and can’t imagine concentrating with the kids in the car. You’ve probably got a strip of bacon bookmark for the print version, too.

Good. I really like the idea of audiobooks, but I just never listen to the dang things. (My mom is nearly blind from macular degeneration, and loves ’em. My optometrist tells me that’s hereditary, so I may come to appreciate them more in future…) (That’s terrible sentence. Sorry.)

Since DG Lewis @10 brought up voices in one’s head, I thought this wasn’t too OT: finally in print, after decades lost, Jack Torrance’s final novel All Work and No Play…, an 80-page novella which the publisher describes as a struggle “against the Sisyphusean sentence. It’s that metatextual struggle of Man vs. Typewriter…”

Slightly OT and several days late, but I wanted to say that I bought my husband the audio version of Metatropolis for Christmas, and he liked it a lot. He especially praised Our Esteemed Host’s contribution, saying that Mr. Scalzi “laid out the story in a straightforward fashion that made it easy to read”.

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